Recently merged law firm Home Wilkinson Lowry Ebsworth is embroiled in what has been called ‘the most opportunistic use yet of the GFC to disgorge a law firm of employees’. In news released today, HWL Ebsworth announced that it had

‘made 17 lawyers redundant since December’, though curiously in the same period, it has also ‘employed a total of 55 new staff’. Over the period, the HWL Ebsworth workforce has thus increased by 38 people; something which ‘shows continuing strength’, a spokesperson said.

However, a HWL Ebsworth Firm Spy has derided such comments by saying:

‘the partnership is using the present global economic woes as an opportunity to arbitrarily eliminate staff of their choosing, they are not sacking staff as a bona fide response to economic demands.’

HWL Ebsworth has confirmed that of the new 55 staff, 7 are new partners to the firm.  Do you believe the addition of 7 partners could have supported the workflows of the now-redundant lawyers? What are your thoughts? Email us with your comments and news!

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